Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Length: 00:04:39
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Program 20: Journey's End
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From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Daisy Turner was proud of her heritage and understood the value of her family tradition. This is the concluding program in the series, Journey's End.
Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral
(00:03:30)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.
Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage
(00:01:45)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!
Program 17: A New Year's Recitation
(00:04:56)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.
Program 16: Daisy's Premonition
(00:05:16)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.
Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market
(00:04:14)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.
Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull
(00:03:11)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Daisy suffered from rickets as a child and during her younger years was unable to walk. At a young age she heard prayers, recitations, hymns, and songs, which she learned and ...
Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man
(00:03:20)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.
Program 11: Coming to Vermont
(00:03:20)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.
Program 10: The Slate Quarry
(00:04:45)
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Alec and Sally Turner lived for a time in Williamsburg, Maine, as members of a colony of freed slaves who worked in the Merrill slate quarry there.
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To conclude the school year, Daisy's teacher organized a program for parents in which each child would represent a different country or nationality and recite a poem--in competition for first prize. Daisy's teacher wanted her to take Africa and the black doll, Dinah, but Daisy didn't want to do it. Her father eventually talked her into it, but at the last minute Daisy changed her mind and in anger recited a defiant piece that she composed spontaneously.
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